From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Zganyaiko Dmitry <zdo.str@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GLib
Date: Sun, 15 May 2011 11:06:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3aaen3klg.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305477377.3612.5.camel@mamburu>
Zganyaiko Dmitry <zdo.str@gmail.com> writes:
> My question is very simple:
> why git doesn't use glib as base C framework? For example, in git there
> are xmalloc, xrealloc functions that duplicates glib functionality, and
> these routines are only small piece of all duplicated code that already
> exists in glib.
>
> So, why git was designed and is developing now without mature stable C
> library like glib?
Note that git is very performance conscious. For example a while ago
some of git commands were split off from /usr/libexec/git-core/git so
that only those need to link against libcurl (if I remember it
correctly).
Besides it all started very simple, with a few wrappers: git
developers thought that requiring GLib is overkill for those few
wrappers. strbuf, parseopt etc. it all came later.
At least it is what I think (what I guess).
BTW how portable GLib is?
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-15 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-15 16:36 GLib Zganyaiko Dmitry
2011-05-15 17:38 ` GLib Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-05-15 18:06 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-05-15 19:41 ` GLib Enrico Weigelt
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